Category Archives: SMILES

Good News Garden.

Posted on April 12, 2026 by john graham

Recently the news seems to be relentlessly bad. Day after day. Issue after issue. It’s almost never ending. It drags you down with it, if you are not careful. 🌻🌸But not in the garden🌺🌷 The garden news always contains some … Continue reading →

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Tulip Time

Posted on April 8, 2026 by john graham

There was a time when tulips made the economy boom. Sadly it’s not so simple these days. Now they just bloom not boom. Just a glimpse of showy colour. Or a flash of white. Or maybe both. Or the rarest … Continue reading →

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Ayatollah Tramp

Posted on April 5, 2026 by john graham

President Tramp has been digging himself into a big pothole in the Middle East. It’s the pothole to beat all potholes. Probably the biggest pothole in the world. Now he has asked the Last Laugh Looney Party to come up … Continue reading →

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LLLP Rescues Tramp.

Posted on April 1, 2026 by john graham

President Tramp has got himself and everyone else in a bit of hot water in the Straight’s of Horsemoose. Apparently the mullahs in Iran didn’t like him dropping bombs on them and sinking their navy. Oh and assassinating half of … Continue reading →

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Good intentions.

Posted on March 24, 2026 by john graham

The March winds have blown away all my good intentions for today. I was going to dig over the garden, and mulch the boarders with compost. But it’s cold hard work, easy to shirk. The perennials will have to wait, … Continue reading →

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Spring Camelias.

Posted on March 22, 2026 by john graham

Enough to cheer your heart. An immigrant from China In an English country garden, Must have come over on a boat. Something of a star among the daffodils and primroses.

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Flower Power.

Posted on March 18, 2026 by john graham

All the rage in my student day 60’s. No more war. Just peace and love. “Let’s all go to San Francisco. With flowers in your hair.” Wars are back again, And not much peace and love. I’ve still got lots … Continue reading →

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Beware the Ides of March.

Posted on March 15, 2026 by john graham

It is a blustery, breezy day and if “The ides of March” means anything, it is a portent of doom and gloom to come. Certainly it was for Julius Caesar, when he was stabbed to death on the 15 th … Continue reading →

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Smile Garden.

Posted on March 8, 2026 by john graham

The fist signs of spring in the garden can always lift the gloom of winter. Reminders of days long ago when my mum and dad stopped off in what seemed like a long trip to Gloucester to pick daffodils in … Continue reading →

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Looney Climate Change.

Posted on March 4, 2026 by john graham

There’s no point in denying it climate change is on the way. The ever so right Ed Elasticband has told us so. Now that all the pensioners have been sent into retirement in Spain, they will no longer need the … Continue reading →

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